The PPP/C desperately needs to wriggle out of its minority status - Guyanese must stay alert

The PPP/C desperately needs to wriggle out of its minority status – Guyanese must stay alert

Feb 23, 2012 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
There seems to be an aggressive and deceptive campaign on the part of the PPP/C and their agents to hoodwink or bully the people into supporting their call for fresh elections. I have noted that over the last few weeks the Chronicle Newspapers and its identified, fiction-writers have been concocting stories and writing letters, almost daily, to support the PPP/C’s push for snap elections.
On 17th February, one Andrew Whyte wrote a letter under the caption; ‘Snap election is the best solution’ and claimed that the PPP/C needs to call this election in order to move on. Then, again, on February 19th, one Krishna Prasad in his letter to the said Chronicle, titled ‘call for fresh election’ in a coercive way seems to suggest that the PPP/C would be able to wriggle out of the political situation in which they find themselves if they call snap elections.
Then on Monday 20th February, one Wilbert M Stephenson, wrote a letter under the caption; ‘There need to be fresh election’, suggesting that the PPP/C getting a majority will be the only way Guyana can move forward. Yes, the state newspaper has been inundated with letters from the PPP/C to support their subtle clarion call for snap elections, but this is not to say that they are not utilizing other forms of media. We have seen the AG, Anil Nandlall, on NCN telling Guyanese that the Opposition should ensure the government’s budget passes, since failing to pass it may result in the people going back to the polls.
The new message to the PPP/C supporters, carved by Ramotar, Jagdeo et al, now appears to be tied to the fact that the government’s supplementary financial papers were not allowed to bulldoze, without due scrutiny. The PPP/C’s message to its supporters, however, is framed in a way to project the administration as the victims of a tyrant opposition.
A central theme in the PPP/C’s letters is that the parliamentary opposition parties are using their majority to stymie the work of the government, and that the PPP/C is unable to govern because the opposition is the majority, a calculated falsity!
No attempt is made by the government to educate and sensitize the people as to why the government must take that deliberate, positive and necessary step to ensure that it acts responsibly, especially in this news dispensation.
They must tell their supporters what their minority status means, particularly as it relates to the parliament; they must tell their contractor friends that it will not be easy for them to award them contracts without proper scrutiny of all bids. The PPP/C has a unique opportunity to demonstrate leadership and maturity, but it is clear that they are prepared to, as Ramotar promised us, have continuity of the Jagdeo’s kind of leadership.
Ramotar, Jagdeo and the PPP/C must know that the people of this country are watching and we understand they are uncomfortable with the fact that the people rendered them a minority government, but we will not go to sleep and allow them to cheat us into participating in an election, where major changes are not made at GECOM.
They are aware that the people stand ready to vote in any election and will take pride in replacing them, totally, but we will not be hoodwinked into an election with the present state of affairs at GECOM. This fact the PPP/C knows and so they are attempting to, in a clandestine manner, rush us into an election controlled by an unacceptable Commission, this must not happen. Guyanese have already decided that we will not go to another election with a GECOM which just conducted highly questionable national and regional elections.
The people will not go to sleep while the PPP/C try to con us into snap elections! I urge every Guyanese to be alert.
Lurlene Nestor

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